According to John Roberts: While burning my CPU.
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> I don't think my problem is the same that you were having... My setup is
> as follows, i have a 2.6 GB WD as hda my CD-Rom drive as hdb and a Seagate
> 240 MB drive as hdc. Could the problem be that i have hdc as my /tmp dir,
> and the rest of my install on the Western Digital drive (hda) ? It's not
> that this is really a life threatening thing, i just prefer to have the
> xrpm thingey, rather than the console based 'rpm -i' deal. Should i maybe
> just scrap the install again, and start fresh? I'm in a quandry.
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As long as you mount /dev/hdc(?) as /tmp when asked about paths and disks
during installation, it should work that way, altho, i ask why you would
want /tmp on a seperate disk, the tmp directory would normaly need no more
than 1 or 2 megs of space.
During normal use /tmp, in this case /dev/hdc(?) (you do not state the
partition number), would need an entry in /etc/fstab like.
/dev/hdc1 /tmp ext2 defaults 0 0
That will mount /dev/hdc1 as /tmp on /dev/hda(NUMBER) where NUMBER is the
partition number where your "root filesystem" is located, make sure you have
a /tmp directory there for the disk to be mounted into. (mount point).
If that does not work, then either you are forgetting to state the partition
number somewhere, or your IDE controller is playing tricks on you.....
When up and running 'df' will show whats mounted and where it is mounted.
So will 'mount' but mount is not so informative and rather untidy in
format.
On another note, after rereading your origanal message, i ask myself what
you realy are trying to do, why would the cdrom be mounted in,
(/mnt/cdrom/blah/blah) when you are installing a Distribution, you either
install a complete distribution, or upgrade a distribution, either way you
use the boot disk's supplied on the cdrom for that.
If you want to install seperate packages after installing a distribution,
then rpm -i <rpm_package> is the way to go, or just use 'tar' for the tar.gz
packages.
Or quite possably i (we) are missing the point here as the message has been
quoted so many times now.
> John Roberts
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> *"Bonjour, ya cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys!" - Groundskeeper Willie*
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> > > > I have already done that, i was trying to install from both the
> > > > directories on a CD-ROM (/mnt/cdrom/blah/blah) and my /tmp dir. And
> > > > the
> > > > bar did not move either time. So i have to use the 'rpm -i
> > > > package.rpm'
> > > > method. Could there be another explanation? Does it matter that my
> > > > /tmp
> > > > dir is physically a different hard drive than the rest of my linux
> > > > install?
> > > >
> > > > John Roberts
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > **********************************************************************
> > > > *
> > > > *"Bonjour, ya cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys!" - Groundskeeper
> > > > Willie*
> > > >
> > > > **********************************************************************
> > > > *
> > > >
> > > >
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Regards Richard.
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